Nebraska school bans Christian, pro-life student clubs

[rangerrebew]

Nebraska school bans Christian, pro-life student clubs
October 5, 2016
By Victor Skinner


GRETNA, Neb. – Gretna High School high school student Bridget Christensen refuses to take no for an answer.

The junior recently approached school officials with a proposal to start a school-sponsored pro-life student club called “Dragons for Life” through the organization Students for Life of America, but was roundly rejected by school officials because abortion is controversial, the Omaha World-Herald reports.bridgetchristensen

School officials told Christensen that only student clubs that complement curriculum and are approved by the district’s attorney based on an unwritten policy are granted official status and can meet during school hours. Dragons for Life doesn’t qualify, officials said, so members can only meet before or after school.

“We’re a public school,” superintendent Kevin Riley told the news site. “It’s not just anybody’s socioeconomic, religious, political or ideological playground.”

http://eagnews.org/nebraska-school-bans-christian-pro-life-student-clubs/

[Idaho_Cowboy]

For starters the school really needs to rethink their racist mascot./sarc.

[jmyrlefuller]

with a proposal to start a school-sponsored pro-life student club

That is the line they crossed.

[geronl]

Public schools are public schools, it does not matter where they are located.

[Smokin Joe]

He's lucky they didn't ban him. "Christensen" once translated as "Christian's Son".

But here, to make sure the rules are what they say when they say so, "...only student clubs that complement curriculum and are approved by the district’s attorney based on an unwritten policy are granted official status and can meet during school hours..."

I don't have a problem that the club isn't school sponsored, but that the rules aren't written down. That leaves a lot of room for arbitrary and capricious decisions.